background count – areas can have a negative or positive magical background count and it can and does change over time. Emotions influence the background count, for example, as do spells and other magic. If a site has a high positive background count, magic gets more powerful, which can be dangerous for the magician. Negative background counts make it harder or impossible to wield magic. The background count is caused by the magical manipulation of →mana

spirit – what is says on the box. There are Spirits of Man, Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Plant and Beast and depending on the magician’s personal tradition, they can be conjured. There also are free spirit, who managed to break the bond that ties them to their conjurer and who now can appear in the Sixth World at will. And there are free spirits that have never been conjured – no one knows where they come from.

spirit formula - a spirit's true name that can be used to control and destroy the spirit